"The most unusual thing about María Baranda's dazzling accomplishment as a poet is that her most recent books are her very best ones. She keeps honing one of the most expressive lyricisms in contemporary Mexican poetry. Her complex prosody — the pitch and tempo rising in plangent cadences that break into sharp, percussive counterpoint — are here, in the poignant, sea-haunted book-length poem Ficticia, at their best. And Joshua Edwards, a supremely gifted poet himself, brings out the full force of Baranda's music." —Forrest Gander